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| Client |
A Top Insurance Firm |
| Challenge |
A top five property & casualty insurance firm
determined that to effectively serve the wide variety and changing
needs of its business units, they needed to develop reusable
IT services. This reuse model was a fundamental shift in their
technology strategy and how applications will be designed in
the future. Implementing reusable services require new business
domain models, new architectural and design standards, a new
development platform, and the corresponding governance principles
and processes to develop, operate and maintain the newly created
service based applications. With offices located throughout
the United States and internationally, the firm required a sophisticated
technology platform to enable a wide variety of applications
and services to run securely and reliably while delivering the
performance necessary to remain productive. The firm decided
to look for outside industry expertise to review, validate and
execute their reuse strategy. |
| Approach |
The initial phase was a three month engagement
centered on validating their existing strategy, then developing
a standardized Services Oriented Architecture on which three
targeted services could be built and deployed into production
for use across the enterprise. The number one goal was to put
enough SOA infrastructure in place to deploy services for use
across the enterprise. |
| Solution |
A GalaxE.Solutions team was established consisting of a lead
business domain analyst, shared services architect, designer,
senior programmers and a QA specialist. The project was divided
into four primary areas:
- Business Domain and Process Model
- Shared Services Architecture Review, Validation and Implementation
- Reuse Process Framework
- Shared Services Development
The GalaxE.Solutions team worked directly with the firm's reuse
team stepping through the complete 4+1 development process.
Upon the completion of the project, a business level domain
model was developed, a standardized architecture was implemented
and three key services were deployed into production. |
| Benefits |
A primary benefit to the client is having a
repeated and maintainable process for defining and building
shared application services. Additionally, they implemented
application services used across multiple business centers.
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| Technologies |
Websphere, WSDL, SOAP, Java, XML, VML, XSLT,
LDAP. |
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